In 1991, the Justice Department revealed criminal indictments of BCCI and three businessmen associated with it.

In 1992, Newsweek quoted Elizabeth Tamposi saying a State Department colleague acting on behest of the White House asked her to dig up information on then-Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton.

In 2001, U.S. commandos were on the ground in southern Afghanistan in the search for al-Qaida leaders and more than 250 American and British special-force troops landed north of Kabul.

In 2002, the White House and the FBI backed off from a warning that al-Quaida was plotting "spectacular" attacks against the United States after critics latched on to it to show progress in the war on terror was faltering.

A thought for the day: Nobel Prize-winning poet George Seferis said, "We have many monsters to destroy."

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